Since I kind of “began” my journey in open education through David Wiley’s course, attending COSL’s Open Education Conference 2008 in Utah is almost like coming full circle for me. Since I also think it’s extremely important to get more students involved in this movement, and conversation, I was very excited to see that the [...]

I was lucky enough to be invited to give a talk at Indian Institute of Public Administration in New Delhi, a research institute that does consulting jobs for the Indian government and also training of senior civil servants. I spoke to a group of perhaps 25 librarians and professors, trying to give a “whirlwind” tour [...]

I already wrote a long post about the first day of the FLOSS Opensource and localization fellowships presentation at SARAI, and here is more from the second day of presentations.
I also wanted to mention that at the end of the first day, we watched a very interesting video from a lecture given in the US [...]

Background
I somehow came across the homepage of Sarai about two years ago, while living in Indonesia. I was extremely impressed with what I saw from their webpages and mailing lists - a vibrant community space/collective that was interested in many of the same things as me; urban issues in developing countries, open source, open culture, [...]

I recently left Varanasi for New Delhi, and I am staying in the crazy and dirty backpacker ghetto called Pahar Ganj, conveniently located behind the main train station. Luckily, my hotel has a TV (with some 80 channels), and thus I was able to catch the live broadcast of the opening ceremony of the Beijing [...]

I came across the new “Wiley wiki” course facilitated by Leigh Blackall called “Facilitating Online Communities” a while back, and blogged about it. At the time, I was considering participating in it, but was worried about both time committments, and lack of internet access. During the next month I will be travelling through India and [...]

The OpenLibrary
I wrote about the OpenLibrary previously, and since then they have only gotten better. They have added a lot of books, but more importantly, their website has turned into a real portal, where you can access all of their scanned books (over 234,000). This is only part of their quest, which is also to [...]

I came across an initiative that made me very excited last night. Linked from a number of blog posts, the Open University of the UK, long a pioneer in the field of open education in both meanings of the word, and Carnegie Mellon University, which has some extremely innovative open learning modules, are partnering to [...]